Dispute Resolution

Disputes are a sad but inevitable fact of life in all walks of life, but especially in the rural farming and landowner sector where the high land values of recent years combined with falling incomes have led to considerable growth in the demand for dispute resolution.

Simon Williams MRICS FAAV has growing specialism in this area of the profession and has both experience and expertise in arbitration, expert determination , mediation and expert witnesses work as well as the newer discipline of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Additionally we can offer professional support and an objective overview of the these all to common “flash points” in farming and landowner families including:-

Partnership dissolution or exit

Shareholder evaluation and exit

Transfer of assets down to the next generation

Trustees and beneficiaries interaction and legal duties

Farming family break up

Senior members of our professional team also fulfil the role of professional trustee, executor and power of attorney across the range of farming and landowning clients, bringing wide ranging experience of rural issues and businesses from and experienced and sound technical knowledge base across the rural sector to support the client. Their presence can and most often will offer peace of mind, stability and structure to rural families and their businesses.